Top 50 Tracks of 2010

You've gotta love the end-of-year list - or in this case, a "beginning-of-year" list of last year's most significant singles.

Here are the fifty "songs" (even the "tracks" here are more than just "funk-tional") that lit up my life and sparked my senses in 2010 (my Top 50 albums will be up soon).

1.   Jamie Woon - Night Air

2.   Balam Acab - See Birds (Moon)

3.   Ramadanman - Tempest

4.   The Roots - Radio Daze (ft. Blu, PORN, Dice Raw)

5.   James Blake - CMYK

6.   Tensnake - Coma Cat

7.   Drake - Fireworks (Deadboy Re-Edit)

8.   Nicolas Jaar - A Time For Us

9.   Hackman - More Than Ever

10. Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me

11.  Four Tet - Sing

12.  Erdbeerschnitzel - To An End

13.  Toro Y Moi - Missya

14.  LCD Soundsystem - Get Yrself Clean

15.  Axel Boman - Purple Drank

16.  Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN (Michna's Brooklyn Bridge Remix)

17.  FaltyDL - All In The Place

18.  C.9ine - Wonder (See U Later)

19.  Floating Points - People's Potential

20.  Sinden & SBTRKT - Kind of Familiar

21.  Hype Williams - The Throning

22.  OoOOo - Burnout Eyess

23.  Pantha Du Prince - Stick To My Side

24.  Birds & Souls - Birds & Souls

25.  Jam City - Arpjam

26.  Findling & Lihab - Stay Down

27.  Gonjasufi - Ancestors

28.  Kingdom - Seven Chirp

29.  The Groovers - Chicken Noodle (Sad Ghost Remix)

30.  Andre Lodemann - The Light

31.  Mark E - Nobody Else

32.  Jamie xx - Far Nearer

33.  Caribou - Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)

34.  Altered Natives - The Bitch

35.  Pursuit Grooves - Pressure

36.  Gonzales - I Am Europe (Claude VonStroke Take A Trip Mix)

37.  Hot Chip ft. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Feel Bonnie (Club Version)

38.  Egyptrixx - Drive U Crazy

39.  T.Williams - Anthem

40.  Teengirl Fantasy - Cheaters

41.  TOKiMONSTA - Gamble

42.  Becoming Real - Fast Motion

43.  Pearson Sound - Blanked

44.  Actress - Purrple Splazsh

45.  Jimmy Edgar - Hot Raw Sex (Instra:Mental Mix)

46.  Girl Unit - Wut

47.  Spoek Mathambo - Mshini Wam (Canblaster Remix)

48.  Jumping Back Slash - Kwaai Sneakers

49.  DJ Roc - I Can't Let Go

50.  Harvey presents Locussolus - Gunship


And to borrow a disclaimer from the radical Sonic Router: "This list is not definitive. Tomorrow it would most likely be different..."

Top House & Techno Tracks of 2008

Another list for the mass of year-end (or beginning, as the case may be) lists, but I feel I've got to post something (plus I got Friday afternoon off work)...

This may be followed by a list of tunes I liked last year that weren't house or techno, and maybe even a Best Albums list... But don't hold your breath.

These tracks made me excited to still be deejaying in 2008 - a big thanks to Tim Sweeney for opening my ears to the epic in top spot. See if you can spot me in the pic, which was taken at his gig at Carfax last May - for my money (and alongside ?uestlove in the same venue), the party of last year.

But that's a whole other list...

50. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
49. Photonz - Trembler (Discodeine Remix)
48. Syclops - Monkey Puss
47. Trickski - Move Me (Phonique Remix)
46. Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo - I Exist Because Of You (Live Mix)
45. Mlle Caro - Dead Souls (Radio Slave Remix)
44. Booka Shade - Planetary
43. Joris Voorn - The Deep (Jimpster Remix)
42. John Tejada - Torque
41. Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Turn Around
40. Arto Mwambe - Une Seule Nuit (Mix De Danse)
39. Hot Chip - Hold On (Ewan Pearson Remix)
38. Fields - Song For The Fields (Ewan Pearson Remix)
37. Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit - Wena
36. Falko Brocksieper - Lament
35. Sunburst Band - Journey To the Sun (Dennis Ferrer Remix)
34. Yazoo - Situation [Hercules and Love Affair Remix]
33. Friendly Fires ft Au Revoir Simone - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
32. DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep
31. Marco Bailey & Tom Hades - Saint Paul [Gregor Tresher Remix]
30. Turntablerocker - All Night (Original)
29. Force Of Nature - Sequencer [Stefan Goldmann Remix]
28. Ben Mono - Jesus Was a B-Boy (Shir Khan Remix)
27. Fan Death - Veronica's Veil [Erol Alkan's Extended Rework]
26. Kuniyuki - All These Things (Theo Parrish Remix Dub)
25. Simon Baker - Plastik (Todd Terje Turkatech Mix)
24. The Laughing Light Of Plenty - The Rose
23. Noze - Ethiopo
22. Radiohead - Videotape (Man Make Remix)
21. Culoe De Song - Bright Forest
20. Mike Dunn presents The MD X-Spress - Na Na Na (I Walk With God) [Mike Dunn Main Vocal Mix]
19. Afefe Iku - Mirror Dance
18. Morgan Geist - Detroit [c2RMX1 by Carl Craig]
17. Loco Dice - Pimp Jackson Is Talkin' Now
16. Matias Aguayo - Minimal (Markus Rossknecht Remix)
15. Foals - Olympic Airways (Ewan Pearson's Return To The Villa of Joy Remix)
14. Sis - Nesrib
13. Ben Watt - Guinea Pig (Vocal Variation Mix feat. Julia Biel)
12. Ane Brun - Headphone Silence (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
11. Jazzanova - Let Me Show Ya (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
10. Primal Scream - Uptown (Weatherall's Long After The Disco Is Over Remix 2)
9. Mark E - Slave 1
8. Lovelock - Don't Turn Away (From My Love)
7. dOP - Just A Man
6. Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Chilly Willy
5. NUfrequency ft. Shara Nelson - Go That Deep (Charles Webster Acid Version)
4. Panthers – Goblin City (Holy Ghost Extended Disco Dub)
3. Hot Chip - Hold On (Mock & Toof Remix)
2. Hercules And Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
1. The Juan Maclean - Happy House

The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Trim The Fat Jeans Edit)
(this version crams all the high points into half the time, but isn't nearly as hypnotically thrilling as the original - which you should go buy!)